Philip Hart wrote: > On pg 15 (ppb) of _Dragon_ Vlad describes having related the events > of _Taltos_, which occurred "just days before", to a box with ears. > Somewhere else we learn someone convinced him his stories would never > get back to anyone involved. I found it rather difficult to suspend > my disbelief that V would confide to a stranger the histories of the > Vladiad. It now strikes me as rather odd that the stranger in > question would know to question V after _Taltos_ - before he'd been > rather unusual but (as far as we know) hardly noteworthy to anyone > except Kiera. Hmm. Brust plays with us. We have to suspend our disbelief to believe in several aspects of his stories. This appears to be one of his jokes, possibly based upon John Carter or something similar.